The Cuban "Buick-boat" guys were the Chevy truck guys in July (pics)

[underpants]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/cuba_car_dc


MIAMI (Reuters) - A group of Cubans who tried to sail to the United States in a 1959 Buick car fashioned into a boat were intercepted at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard (news - web sites), relatives in Cuba and Cuban exiles said Wednesday.

For four of the 11 people on board, it was not the first thwarted attempt to leave the communist island in a bizarrely converted vintage vehicle.

They had already tried last July to reach Florida in a vessel made from a 1951 Chevy truck, only to be picked up by the Coast Guard and sent home.

[Lizz612]

1. Don't tell me they sunk this one too!

Thats a fancy bit of engineering for the limited supplies in Cuba!

[underpants]

2. The truck made it if I remember correctly

:shrug:

[OneBlueSky]

3. aw, c'mon . . . these guys deserve to stay just for ingenuity . . .

and building a really cool boat out of a car . . . that's the kind of innovative thinking this country needs! . . .

[waterman]

4. Here, here .... I second that!